The film "Cassandra Bridge", co-produced by Britain, Italy and West Germany in the 1970s, was introduced and screened in the early days of China's reform and opening up. The film tells the story of terrorists breaking into a building at the headquarters of the International Health Organization in Geneva in an attempt to create an explosion. While fighting guards, a mob escapes with highly contagious pneumonic plague germs and sneaks into an international train. In order to cover up the guilt of the United States government for secretly testing bacteriological weapons, Colonel Mackenzie, the representative of the United States to the International Health Organization, at the behest of his master, disregarded the lives of more than a thousand passengers on the train and forced the train to pass through the Cassandra Bridge, which had fallen into disrepair, in an attempt to cause a car accident and destroy the evidence of the crime. Under the leadership of Dr. Chamberlain, the passengers engaged in a life-and-death struggle against the infectious disease and the gendarmes escorting the carriages. United and fearless, they eventually defeated the gendarmes and infectious diseases, leaving most of the travelers in desperate situations.
The film was thrilling and tense, with a strong sense of rhythm, and became a hot film at the time. Several publishing houses wasted no time in adapting it into a film comic strip of the same name, of which the 1982 edition of jiangsu People's Publishing House was more prominent. This comic strip preserves the key twists and cutscenes in the film well when editing trade-offs, and plays a good role in connecting the connections between the frames and the explanation of the story's time and space.
The comic strip also makes a good selection of cutscenes in the film, such as the 19th, which has only one line: the train gallops through the wilderness toward its end point, Stockholm. The picture is of a train moving in a bend. Before that, the terrorist infected with the virus had boarded the train, and Dr. Chamberlain and his writer's ex-wife Jennifer, mountaineer Nafallow and his girlfriend Nicole were all on the train, and the US intelligence agencies also asked MacKenzie to find the terrorist. The 19th painting is concise, the theme of the picture is prominent, and it plays a good bridging role - the reader will be eager to know the development of the story in the future. In the same situation, there are several more in the comic strip.
For example, in the film, there is a scene in which the gendarmes are ordered to close the train, deliver medicine, and send oxygen, and the comic strip divides it into three pictures: 71. The gendarmes send the medicine into the carriage and give it to Dr. Chamberlain. 72. Oxygen is transported into each carriage at the same time. 73. After the train was sealed, it left Nuremberg escorted by the gendarmes. In fact, there is a period of time between drug delivery and oxygen in the film, which explains the reactions of the passengers in the car to see the gendarmes welding the windows, followed by oxygen infusion and driving, but the 54th and 55th pictures in front of the comic strip have explained the broadcast of MacKenzie's notice of the train's diversion, and the 63rd picture has "The train Nuremberg was immediately surrounded by gendarmes wearing gas suits, and the doors and windows of the train were sealed." Captain Scott, the captain of the gendarmerie, announces to the passengers that you will receive the best care in the Yanov exclusion zone, forcibly unsealing and shooting those who flee the train! "These words and pictures, so there is no need to choose a picture such as window sealing." The choices of these three paintings are simple and straightforward, and it is very convenient to reproduce the twists of the film into the comic strip.
In this film, 8 large close-ups of the faces of the characters are selected for the comic strip and 10 close-ups of the bust. Close-ups are used to depict the inner activities of the characters and give the audience a strong impression, and the role in the film comic strip is the same, but it is more than the movie: words. The main characters in the film sometimes appear shortly after they appear in close-ups, but there is no verbal dialogue, and then they are introduced to the audience by other characters, such as Jennifer in this film. Jennifer appears in the 17th scene of the comic strip, directly choosing her close-up, and the script text goes like this: "The female writer Jennifer divorced her husband, the famous neurosurgeon Chamberlain, for the second time because of her arrogant personality. But each divorce made her feel remorseful and remorseful. This time, she learned that Chamberlain was going to Stockholm to collect the award, and specially came to take the same train. In this way, the reader is introduced to her identity, and she can save the picture of others introducing her in the future.
This movie comic strip tells people that natural disasters and man-made disasters can happen on our planet at any time. As long as the people of all countries and ethnic groups work together and are not afraid of difficulties, they will overcome all difficulties in the future and usher in an incomparably brilliant tomorrow.